AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Although many startup companies in Korea are struggling, the bio-industry shows growth in developing digital treatments and pharmaceuticals. According to the Korea Health Industry Development Institute and Evaluate Pharma, a British market research firm, the global gene therapy market is worth about $7.47 billion by 2026.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

Along the way, each submarket – American Dynamism , Apps ( Consumer , Enterprise , Fintech ) , Bio+Health , Crypto , Games , Growth , and Infrastructure – has become as big as the original entire Venture Capital market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 9, 2024

Bio Eats World is now Raising Health! Vijay Pande, founding partner of Bio + Health, is joined by Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aviv Regev, and Jakob Uszkoreit. This episode is drawn from the episodes we recorded in 2023 with Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aviv Regev, and Jakob Uszkoreit, which are linked below.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Singapore-based health-tech startup Mesh Bio has secured $3.5 This funding will enable Mesh Bio to expand its digital twin technologies to healthcare providers in Hong Kong and […] The post East Ventures Leads $3.5M million in Series A financing led by East Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on Southeast Asia.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to talk through the grand challenges facing healthcare AI today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The natural world has produced many of our most important medicines, but instead of looking under a leaf or rock for the next big cancer drug, Pragma Bio is searching within the human body — its swarm of resident microbes, to be precise. And toxicity? Probably not, it’s already in there.”

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Y Combinator

APRIL 30, 2024

Sectors represented: B2B software and services (52%) Consumer (23%) Financial technology and services (19%) Healthcare (2%) Bio and industrials (2%) Real estate and construction (2%) 13 companies (27%) on the list have had an exit, 11 are publicly traded. The companies on this list are collectively valued at $458B.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Former gymnast and current investor Aly Raisman joins general partner Julie Yoo and investment partner Daisy Wolf of a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, Aly chats about her background, how she thinks about health and fitness now that she’s no longer competing, and a few of her passion projects, including financial literacy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

You name it, there’s a health app for it. million, from 65 health-tech and consumer-tech investors, taking its total raised to $5 million. It’s because other people of your age and health profile did that, and you’re being compared to that real-world data. 3 golden rules for health tech entrepreneurs. The list goes on.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

Vijay Pande, founding general partner of a16z Bio + Health, chats with the builders (and siblings) behind Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Josh Clemente, cofounder and president of Levels, joins Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Daisy Wolf, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, engineer-turned-entrepreneur Josh charts his journey from SpaceX and Hyperloop to cofounding metabolic health-focused company Levels.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

Guided by Julie Yoo, general partner, and Jay Rughani, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health, you’ll hear from the executives about how they’re utilizing AI, the KPIs they use to gauge effectiveness, and what they consider to be a good partnership.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Co-founder, CEO Devon Ke a DeAngelo TadHealth – Suite of enterprise tools to deliver and manage school-based mental health care. Founder, CEO Ben Grein er Yatiri Bio Inc. – Revolutionizing drug discovery with models predictive of patient outcomes.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Biotechnology has been applied to various industries such as agriculture, environment, and health, and has quickly become a part of our daily lives. On May 30th, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups held a “Bio Startup Deregulation Talk Concert” at the Korea Bio Park in Pangyo Techno Valley. There are many IT companies in Pangyo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 19, 2024

” Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health, joins the Software Engineering Daily podcast to talk about innovation in biotech and healthcare, the biotech startup landscape, the impact of AI, and much more.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

Having worked as a pharmacist in Korea and actively engaging in clinical trial-related responsibilities at an international pharmaceutical company, I recognized the obstacles domestic pharmaceutical firms and bio ventures encountered when preparing for clinical trials.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cosmax is currently in the process of entering overseas markets such as Indonesia and Japan, and announced its vision to provide services that integrate beauty and health at the Cosmax Group’s New Year celebration in 2023. Many beauty brands are entering the global market by collaborating with other startups in Pangyo.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 11, 2024

Chronis Manolis, SVP and Chief Pharmacy Officer of UPMC Health Plan, joins Julie Yoo, general partner, Daisy Wolf, investment partner, and Will Shrank, venture partner, of a16z Bio + Health. The week before, we spoke with Carolyn Jasik, Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health, on GLP-1s from a clinical perspective.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 25, 2020

Additionally, more than 20 YC bio and healthcare companies are helping with the COVID-19 crisis, whether to produce better tests, treatments and vaccines, or resources for hospitals and health systems. We will fast-track a handful of promising COVID-19 startups through our application process and fund them immediately.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

A total of 43 companies in various fields, including information and communication technology, bio-health, and smart mobility, participated in the K-SBC to promote their brands. They also discussed how to make the K-SBC a stepping stone for SMEs and venture companies in Seongnam City to enter overseas markets.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2023

October 24, 2022 ) – Uvax Bio LLC , an early-stage biopharmaceutical company with cutting-edge vaccine platform technology that has produced both COVID-19 and HIV-1 vaccine candidates, has chosen to grow in Newark, Delaware, where it has been headquartered since forming in 2018.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande. In this candid conversation, Li unfolds her transformation from a young immigrant to an influential figure in AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 12, 2024

Rosana Kapeller, CEO of Rome Therapeutics, and Marty Taylor, physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School, join Vineeta Agarwala, general partner, and Bryan Faust, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they discuss Rosana and Marty’s recent publication regarding a virus-like element in our genome known as LINE-1.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande. Check out her new book, The Worlds I See, here: [link] Check out other episodes form our sister podcast, Bio Eats World: [link]

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Another US femtech startup has joined the race to build up data-sets to support research into and understanding of a range of health issues that can affect women. Decoding the vaginal microbiome is thus seen as an opportunity to support a broad range of women’s health goals.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Korea BioPark building houses public organizations and major companies such as Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Electronics Technology Research Institute, Korea Health Functional Food Association, GE Power Korea, Baker Hughes Korea, and LabGenomics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Whether you’re a biotech entrepreneur, a researcher or a scientist tackling the daunting challenges of human and planetary health, this session will help you build a stronger, more successful startup as you take your product to market. Get your ticket for the April TC Early Stage event here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Commenting in a statement, Samina Hydery, kegg advisor and women’s health investor, said: “Investor interest in femtech and fertility has accelerated over the last few years. But its website also notes it uses “anonymized/pseudonymized” data for research into women’s health. It’s announcing a $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Pan American Health Organization estimates that by 2030, “hunger will affect 67 million people in the region, a figure that does not take into account repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.”. Typically, farmers control pests with a fungicide that creates health risks for both consumers and farmers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Founded by recent alumni of Brown University and the neighboring Rhode Island School of Design, Tagg is still in private beta with thousands of users, and thousands more on a waitlist.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Hear from founder and CEO Jen Nwankwo and investor Jory Bell, from Playground Global, about how to fundraise in the bio/health tech sector and use that financing to your advantage. After the last year+, VC money has been pouring into biotech companies, and 1910 Genetics is no different. Image Credits: Playground Global / 1910 Genetics.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2021

We are small and ambitious and we have an innate belief in our ability to sort things out; whether that’s managing COVID well, sending satellites into orbit more efficiently (Rocket Lab, Dawn Aerospace), creating software to help businesses operate better (Unleashed, Vend, CoGo), extracting useful material out of industrial waste (Avertana, Mint Innovation, (..)

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 19, 2021

Wheeler Bio, founded by Oklahoma City investor Christian Kanady and scientist Dr. Jesse McCool, is set to start with up to 100 scientists working on three floors of Kanady’s Ziggurat building at 120 Robert S. A series of studies suggested merging the Oklahoma Health Center and nearby Automobile Alley into an “innovation district.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We do not favor biotech startups with extant AI over those without: Bio-revolution is not only digital. James Coates , health and human performance principal, Decisive Point. IBM sold Watson Health to private equity in 2022 after investing billions into it. Where else can AI play a role in health tech?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

Our team at a16z bio + health has outlined several frameworks for thinking about AI applications in healthcare ( here , here , here ), and one I reference frequently is a simple 2×2 diagram of tasks that are easy vs hard for humans, and easy vs hard for AI. Can startups build bicycles for healthcare minds?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 1, 2020

Argus pitched a concept to collect information on a person’s physical health using motion capture technology and through bio-mechanical analysis software provide vital biofeedback about their movement and physical health. Argus team members were Sydni Lehr, team leader, and Vinicius Alves, Derrick Karake and Caleb Davis.

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